BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 
Bost. Soc. N. H., 1867, 95 (Santo Domingo).—Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. 
Nat. Ois.-Mouch., Suppl., pl. 46, figs. 1, 2. 
T[rochilus] minimus Vinriot, Tab. Enc. Méth., ii, 1822, 568, part. 
[ Mellisuga] minimus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 81, part (‘‘Antilles”). 
Ornismya minima (not Trochilus minimus Linneus) Lesson, Hist. Nat. Ois.- 
Mouch., 1829, pp. xxxii, 213, pl. 79 (Santo Domingo); Index Gen. et Synop. 
Troch., 1832, p. xxvii (Santo Domingo). 
Mellisuga minima Goutp, Mon. Troch., pt. ii, Nov., 1851 (vol. iii, 1861, text to 
pl. 133), part (Santo Domingo); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 87, part (Santo 
Domingo).—Rrtcuensacs, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 6, part (Santo Domingo); 
Troch. Enum., 1855, 3, pl. 680, fig. 4490, part (Santo Domingo).—Sa.i, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (Santo Domingo).—ScraTer, Cat. Am. Birds, 
1862, 297, part (synonymy only).—Exutot, Ibis, 1872, 354, part (Santo 
Domingo; synon.; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 103, part (Santo 
Domingo).—Mutsant and VERREAUX, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 
1877, 82, part (Santo Domingo).—Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 92, 
pl. (22), fig. 6; Auk, iii, 1886, 354, part (Santo Domingo); Birds West Ind., 
1889, 149 (Santo Domingo); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 103, 107, part (Santo 
Domingo).—Satvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 409, part (Santo 
Domingo).—Bovucarp, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 6, part (Haiti and Santo 
Domingo).—CHErriz, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 18 (song).—Curisty, 
Ibis, 1897, 829 (Sanchez and La Vega, Santo Domingo; habits). 
[Mellisuga] minima ScrateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 84, part 
(Haiti)—Mutsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 227, part (Haiti) — 
Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 18, part (Haiti) —Suarpr, Hand-list, ii, 
1900, 142, part (Haiti). 
M[ellisuga] minima Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 212, part (Haiti and 
Santo Domingo). 
Zephyritis (Dyrinia) minima Mutsant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1866, 88, 
part. 
[Hylocharis] minima Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 150, no. 1941, part (Santo Domingo). 
Trochilus vielloti SHaw, Gen. Zool., viii, pt. 1, 1812, 347 (based on ‘‘ LZ’ Otseau- 
mouche & ventre gris Viell., pl. 53.’’ Santo Domingo). 
Ornismia catharine SAL, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., Oct., 1849, 498 (Santo Domingo). 
Genus STELLULA Gould. 
Stellula Goutp, Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 90. (Type, Trochilus calliope 
Gould. 
Stellura enemy Muusant and VERREAUX, Classif. Troch., 1865, 88; Hist. 
Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, 1877, 87. (Type, Trochilus calliope Gould.) 
Small Trochilide (length about 65-75 mm.) resembling Atthis but 
differing in longer tenth primary, relatively shorter and differently 
shaped and differently colored tail, with subspatulate middle rectrices 
(in both sexes), and in the very narrow and much elongated throat 
(“‘gorget”’) feathers of the adult male. 
Bill about as long as head or slightly longer, slender, straight, nearly 
terete; culmen rounded but at extreme base contracted into a rather 
distinct ridge; tomia smooth; mandible with the usual lateral median 
groove or sulcus. Nasal operculum covered by the appressed frontal 
feathering, which anteriorly extends considerably beyond nostrils, 
forming a very short obtuse point or antia on each side of culmen. 
